Home affairs adviser to newly formed interim government Brigadier (retired) M Sakhawat Hossain on Sunday threatened that he would close those media outlets found involved in sycophancy towards the government.
鈥業 promise that if any media outlet is found involved in sycophancy, I will close its operations. I urge all not to invite sycophants to talk shows,鈥� Sakhawat said at a briefing at Razarbagh Police Hospital after visiting the injured police members.
Urging media not to be sycophant, he said that a country sank when the media did not speak the truth.
鈥業f the media had portrayed real incidents at that time, police would not have to face such a situation. Media was saying nothing happened time and again. I watched all things on the BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation] channel,鈥� the home adviser said.
Urging the media to reveal real information, he said that knowledge-based discussions were not being held on television talk shows.
Slamming the journalists for their questions to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, he said that journalists were seen praising what she had done.
Sakhawat Hossain was sworn in as the home affairs adviser to the interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Thursday.
Sheikh Hasina, the longest serving prime minister in the country鈥檚 history, resigned and fled to India on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising that left more than 376 people dead between July 16 and August 5.
